“The
argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies,
one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea
acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the
two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people
can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading
to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.” – Dr.
Carroll Quigley (former historian for the Council on Foreign Relations,
and Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown University), “Tragedy
and Hope,” 1966, p. 1247, 1248.

This
article deals with the role of the neoconservatives with help from the
Obama Administration, and high up leaders of major teacher unions --
NOT REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHERS! Organizations such as the neoconservative
Heritage Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Gates Foundation and
other foundations and members of Congress) are supporting/creating charter
schools, unaccountable to the taxpayers who fund them and not subject
to customary public school regulations. Thus, the last nail is being
pounded into the coffin of our free REPRESENTATIVE form of government.

(Why
isn’t there the same uproar over tax-supported charter schools
being exempted from public school regulations as there is over corporations
and unions who lobbied for Obamacare applying for waivers (exempt from
having to comply with the mandates of the law?)

Those
pushing for charter schools know that they have to get rid of elected
school boards in order to be able to change education from academics
to totalitarian workforce training. Elected school board members cannot
be expected to eliminate their role of overseeing the expenditure of
taxpayers’ hard-earned money and/or the shift from academic education
to workforce training. So, “off with their heads”, so to
speak. Move to appointed boards whose role is to implement the changes.

(Here
we go again with legislation targeting the low-performing minority students
in the “grand experiment” to train for the workforce. [1]In the Foreword
to my book the
deliberate dumbing down of america, educator and writer Samuel
Blumenfeld says the following regarding taxpayers who continue to support
what is presented to them as “change,” in this case unelected
charter schools for workforce training: “It reminds one of how
the Nazis charged their victims train fare to their own doom.”)

For
those who believe the teachers unions are opposed to charter
schools, please listen: NEA leadership actively supported the
1995 Washington State push for charter schools. And the NEA (at the
top) has been working with David Rockefeller, the late McGeorge Bundy,
et al in changing NEA policy/agenda. [2]

How
curious that the neoconservatives blame teachers’ unions for the
dumbing down of our children, when the union LEADERSHIP is in bed with
the neoconservatives on communist workforce training and charter schools?
(Did you know Russia has charter schools, and that charter schools are
international?)

Isn’t
it interesting that the neoconservatives rarely call for abolishing
the U.S. Department of Education which has been and is the primary culprit
in deliberately dumbing down our children (wrecking the traditional
American system of education -- happening right now -- so it can be
replaced by Soviet workforce training? The dialectic at work big time!)
Why? Because neocons are in bed with the left and the union/international
corporate community which needs the U.S. Department of Education to
collect and analyze data regarding workers’ attitudes and beliefs,
global economic performance, and workforce needs.

Maine’s
Story

The
Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC), a state affiliate of the national
Heritage Foundation, is pushing for unconstitutional charter schools
in Maine. In the past, MHPC has brought speakers from abroad into our
state to promote regionalism/consolidation/communism.

We
in Maine recently, with the help of Maine's Tea Party, elected a Governor
who we had hoped would continue Maine's successful opposition to charter
schools. Our state is one of the eleven states to resist the lure of
federal money in order to get charter school approval. We, true conservatives
and traditional teachers, are most concerned that our new Governor is
being influenced by The Maine Heritage Policy Center to support the
concept of charter schools.

Meddling
with state policy

The
Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) is one of the national Heritage
Foundation clones determining socialist policy in all our states. Heritage
Foundation was founded and funded by Richard Mellon Scaife (That’s
Chase Mellon Bank and Rockefeller) to the tune of $900,000. Heritage
Foundation supports the North American Free Trade Agreement [3]and approved of
President Reagan signing the U.S.-Soviet cultural, educational, and
scientific exchanges agreement (1985). [4]

On
December 30, 2010, I corresponded with Stephen Bowen, an MHPC staff
member. The following excerpts are from my letter and relate to the
dangers of charter schools:

“After
35 years of research on public education, including serving as a school
board member and as Sr. Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education,
I believe I have a sound view of what works and what does not work in
education and, yes, you are quite correct, I do have a complete understanding
of the conspiratorial forces which have resulted in our nation's children
having close to the worst academic test scores in the world today. Those
who reject the conspiratorial view of history do themselves and the
nation a great disservice. Please tell me how it is possible for the
USA to have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on education (totals
over a trillion) over the past 100 years and to have seen nothing but
a decline in academic test scores and an increase in immorality? Isn't
there something amiss here?

“I
doubt that you read my article since if you had, you would definitely
see the conspiratorial role of the tax-exempt foundations, amongst others,
in changing our education system from one which previously focused on
academics to the corporate fascist workforce training model we are looking
at today. This model, interestingly enough, has been promoted by the
Carnegie Corporation from the early nineteen hundreds to the present.
The U.S. Congress in the early fifties held Congressional Hearings on
the role of the tax-exempt foundations role in subverting American education.
You can read
the entire 3000 pages of those hearings. I paid $3000 to purchase
the ONLY existing copy of the transcript of those hearings. The foundations,
20 years ago, offered the person from whom I bought that copy, ‘any
$ amount’ in order to get a hold of that one copy. He refused
to sell it to them for any price. They quite obviously did not want
the information contained in the transcript to reach the American people.

“My
article has very important quotes documenting the fact that ‘yes,
there has been a monumental conspiracy to dumb down our children and
to change their values so they will march to the globalist drummers.’
Also, you
may read my 700-page book the deliberate dumbing down of america...A
Chronological Paper Trail, 1999, which is a free pdf download.
The few remaining copies were sold last week.

“The
history of what happened to our schools is very clearly outlined in
that book.

“Charter
Schools, regardless of how good they may be, are ‘taxation without
representation’ and, although those promoting them decry the influence
of the U.S. Department of Education on local schools, charter schools
MUST administer the federal test, the NAEP, which is at least 40% attitudinal,
in order to continue receiving federal funding. I have research going
back to the sixties on the need for charter schools. The internationalist
Aspen Institute started the whole movement, starting with recommendations
for site based management, school choice, vouchers, tuition tax credits,
etc.[5]
Marjorie Ledell, a leading change agent educator, close to William Spady
and others, said in an article in the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development’s (NEA spinoff) Educational Leadership,
January 1994 entitled ‘To OBE or Not to OBE’ the following:
‘Finally, raise the real issue and depend on democracy. Don't
let ‘to OBE or Not to OBE’ or ‘to implement or not
implement efforts to improve student learning’ cloud the overdue
national debate about whether public education should exist or be replaced
with publicly funded private education.’

“Ledell
is obviously looking forward to federally-funded charter schools with
no accountability to the taxpayers (taxation without representation.)

“I
am 100 % opposed to the use of computers to teach our children. There
is massive research, from educational experts in the field of technology,
who agree with me. My book contains most of that research. I support
students learning ‘how to use the computer’, not the use
of software to brainwash them. Dustin Heuston of the World Institute
for Computer Assisted Instruction said ‘We’ve been absolutely
staggered by realizing that the computer [Skinner’s ‘Box’–Ed.]
has the capability to act as if it were ten of the top psychologists
working with one student . . . You’ve seen the tip of the iceberg.
Won’t it be wonderful when the child [‘your child, parent!
’–Ed.] in the smallest county in the most distant area or
in the most confused urban setting can have the equivalent of the finest
school in the world on that terminal and NO ONE CAN GET BETWEEN THAT
CHILD AND THAT CURRICULUM? We have great moments coming in the history
of education.’

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“Please
re-read my article ‘The Death of Free Will’ a pdf
here. (click on Articles). If you don't have time to read the whole
article, please be sure to click on the links and to read the C.S. Lewis
quotes.”

A
warning to other states

Let
our experience here in Maine be a warning to citizens in other states
who are fighting charter school legislation. Also, consider alerting
legislators that any charter school legislation will be followed by
lawsuits based on the constitutionality of charter schools. Such a lawsuit
is pending in Georgia which has 200 charter schools, all created under
the direction of the Georgia Public Policy Association, a Heritage Foundation
affiliate. For part one click below.

1-
Download “Experimentation
with Minorities and Deliberate Dumbing Down for the Planned Economy.”
July 29, 2003.2-Click here
and type in “Cardinal Principles Revisited” for proof of
NEA leadership’s cooperation with globalists.3-
The Heritage Foundation’s EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM #371 – “The
North American Free Trade Agreement: Ronald Reagan's Vision Realized”
-- by Michael Wilson, Nov. 23, 1993 says: “Ronald Reagan first
proposed a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico in his 1980
presidential campaign. Since that time, The Heritage Foundation is proud
of the role it has played in articulating President Reagan's vision
of free trade in Latin America and around the world. Since the mid-1980s,
Heritage analysts have been stressing that a free trade agreement with
Mexico not only will stimulate economic growth in the U.S., but will
make Mexico a more stable and prosperous country. Heritage has published
over three dozen studies stressing the benefits of free trade in North
America.” The memo also says, “The NAFTA win is a great
victory for free trade conservatives. It was they who first championed
the notion of free trade with Mexico. And it is they who will carry
the banner of free trade in the future -- a banner under which even
Bill Clinton now marches.” The
Heritage Foundation website (accessed 1/12/11).4-
See Backgrounder, No. 478, Jan. 9, 1986, The Heritage Foundation. 5-
See entry
in the deliberate dumbing down of america, p. 136, regarding: “LAWRENCE
C. PIERCE DELIVERED A PAPER IN 1976 ENTITLED ‘SCHOOL SITE MANAGEMENT’
to a meeting of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in which
he referred to site-based management as an ‘intermediate structure
between centralized school management and education vouchers.’”

Charlotte
Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy
Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI),
U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration,
where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which
would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former
school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research
analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She
has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the
Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in
the Republic of South Africa.

Iserbyt
is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics
Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet
Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered
the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements
which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has
had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor
Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

The
significance of the charter school/school choice issue is NOT related
strictly to educational choice. It is related to acceptance of a communist
system of governance where decisions are made by appointed, not elected
officials. Appointed officials cannot be removed from office by voters/taxpayers.